Former CSKA captain Sergei Semak is not yet going to return to Russia, but “is always ready” to play for the Russian team, RIA Novosti reports. The name Semak appears on the list of those players whom the new mentor of the national team Yuri Semin is considering as candidates for the national team. “I know about the interest from the new leadership of the national team.

Employees of the Ministry of Emergencies evacuated the residents of the house in Makhachkala, where an explosion occurred, in which the Minister of National Policy of Dagestan Zagir Arukhov died, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Ministry of Emergencies of the Republic, during the explosion in the entrance of the house 31 on Aliyev Street, stair marches were destroyed to the third floor.

Judge Rodney Malville, the leading process of singer Michael Jackson, did not allow the well-known leading current show Larry King to act in court as a defense witness. It is reported by "Gazeta.Ru" with reference to Reuters. The judge considered that his speech was not related to the case under consideration.

After a long break, I had a chance to visit Georgia. In Tbilisi. My last visit there is indicated in 1982.

The new, just released novel by Dmitry Bykov, “The tow truck”, seems to have already heard everyone: many media trotted about him long before the book was published. For those who did not have time to distinguish the sound of copper pipes, we report the plot: designer Katya and programmer Igor work in the glossy journal “Office” (at least Bykov, the author of “Executions” and “Spelling”, confirmed his selfless love for the letter “O”). Young people fall in love with each other.

In Ukraine, the privatization of 191 enterprises from those privatized over the past 5 years is disputed in the courts, RBC reports. According to the chairman of the State Property Fund, Valentina Semenyuk, the list includes 54 packages of shares of joint -stock companies, 38 holistic property complexes and 99 objects of incomplete construction. In particular, by the beginning of the II quarter of 2005.

In the Tomsk region, another criminal case was opened against the former general director of Tomskneft-VNK OJSC Nikolai Logachev , RBC reports. The investigation established that Logachev in 1999 in the territory of the Kargasog, Parabelsky and Aleksandrovsky districts, violating the terms of licensing, exceeded the oil production of 11 wells, having received illegal income in the amount of 207 million 601 thousand 500 rubles. The damage caused is fully compensated.

In Lviv, the vandals destroyed the alley named after John Paul II, reports Echo of Moscow . Saughters of more than 300 young trees at the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, where in 2001, the Pope met with Ukrainian youth, were torn with the root. These trees were planted on the day of the pontiff's funeral on April 8.

Brazil authorities demolished about 100 residential buildings in the south of the country, writes Gazeta.Ru with reference to Reuters. This became known when the inhabitants of the village of Vila Baghdad reached the capital of Maranian San Luis and staged a protest. According to them, the police demolished 100 houses in their village, while, according to the court decision, a completely different illegal settlement 8 km from their village should be demolished.

** May 23, Monday ** The main events: The Council of the Federation will be a press conference of the Chairman of the Committee of the SF for Agrarian and Revolutionary Policy of G. Gorbunov on the topic "Legislative support for sustainable development of rural territories." The State Duma will take place: - The meeting of the chairman of the State Duma B. Gryzlov with the President of India Abdul Kalam.

In Kyiv, consultations on the upcoming accession of Ukraine and Russia to the World Trade Organization (WTO) began today. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia. The Russian delegation at the negotiations is headed by the director of the Department of Trade Directory of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia Maxim Medvedkov.

India President Abdul Kalam will arrive in Moscow on Sunday with a state visit, RIA Novosti reports. The work program of the president’s visit will begin on Monday, May 23, and finds meetings with the Russian leadership.

In accordance with the mandate of the personal representative of the current chairman of the OSCE, the next monitoring of compliance with the ceasefire on the contact line of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan and Armenia will take place. RIA Novosti was reported in the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan. Monitoring will take place on the Fizuli-Horadiz on the territory of the Fizuli district of Azerbaijan.

More than 230 representatives of Russian and foreign companies today took part in the seminar "How to become a supplier for electric power enterprises. System of regulated procurement of products for the needs of the RAO" UES of Russia ". This is the first seminar of this scale among the country's natural monopolies.

The Kinotavr festival this year will be held for the first time without Mark Rudinshtein, who until recently was the director of the festival, the newspaper " News Time " writes. Now the Kinotavr has a new directorate: artistic director Igor Tolstunov, director Kirill Lysko, director of Sitor Aliyev programs.